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- Discovering My Love of Final Fantasy XIV Kept Me From Getting Covid Burnout
- Tinder Will Help You Find Wedding Dates Because Apparently Taking Strangers to Weddings Is a Thing
- Ransomware Hackers Reportedly Targeted 3 Different U.S. Water Facilities This Year Alone
- Let Kingo's Finger Guns Point the Way to a Spate of Eternals Goodness
- Doctor Who's Trailer Promises a Dramatic End to Jodie Whittaker's Final Run
- Here's What the HomePod Needs to Actually Be Good
- Tesla Is Rolling Out a New Insurance Program With Rates Calculated by Surveilling Drivers
- Massive Rift Detected in Arctic’s ‘Last Refuge of Ice’
- After Woman's Tumor Unexpectedly Shrinks, Her Doctors Wonder If CBD Oil Played a Role
- This Week's Toy News Has Killer Babies, Killer Doggos, and a Killer Ride
- Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout
- If Anyone's Seen This Mildly Radioactive Device, Let the Cops Know. Also, Don't Touch It.
- Ron Watkins, the 8chan Troll and QAnon Evangelist, Says He's Running for Congress
- Revisit Day of the Dead for a Reminder That Sometimes Zombies Deserve to Win
- Big Mouth's New Season Looks Buggy as Hell
- The Disappointing New Windows 11 Emojis Are Yet Another Reason to Stick With Windows 10
- Instacart's Embattled Gig Workers Are Going On a Nationwide Strike
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Morpheus Could Explain Some Crucial Lore in Matrix Resurrections
- The ABCs of Big Oil: How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination
- A New Look Inside the Latest Thrawn Book Reintroduces a Very Familiar Chiss
- Tiny Gas Explosions Create the Raised Dots on This Electronic Braille Display
| Discovering My Love of Final Fantasy XIV Kept Me From Getting Covid Burnout Posted: 16 Oct 2021 07:00 AM PDT The past 18 months have been, to put it lightly, have not been great. The covid-19 pandemic has and continues to warp our lives in ways big and small. But for me personally, I've been able to find joy and avoid burnout through something I never thought I'd indulge in: the critically acclaimed and much memed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV. |
| Tinder Will Help You Find Wedding Dates Because Apparently Taking Strangers to Weddings Is a Thing Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:41 PM PDT  Let me preface this by saying that I don't dislike Tinder. I've used it before to chat with singles in my area and even went on a nice date with someone from the app. You know, normal dating app things. Yet, people are apparently going on Tinder with a very different goal in mind: finding a wedding date. And I can't… |
| Ransomware Hackers Reportedly Targeted 3 Different U.S. Water Facilities This Year Alone Posted: 15 Oct 2021 06:00 PM PDT  Ransomware gangs targeted multiple water facilities in the U.S. this year, a new government report claims. The news represents a frightening escalation in cybercrime—showing that hackers are increasingly willing to put people's lives at risk for the sake of money. |
| Let Kingo's Finger Guns Point the Way to a Spate of Eternals Goodness Posted: 15 Oct 2021 04:00 PM PDT  Sometimes it seems like millennia have passed since Marvel Studios first announced that the little-known Eternals would star in their own movie. But that movie is finally less than a month away, right around the proverbial corner—yet there's still hyping to be done. There's a new clip to check out, an extremely… |
| Doctor Who's Trailer Promises a Dramatic End to Jodie Whittaker's Final Run Posted: 15 Oct 2021 02:55 PM PDT  The end is in sight for Jodie Whittaker's groundbreaking run as the title star of the Doctor Who—but it's not time to bid farewell just yet. We've got quite a fight to get through first! |
| Here's What the HomePod Needs to Actually Be Good Posted: 15 Oct 2021 02:10 PM PDT  Apple hasn't given up on its HomePod smart speaker. According to a new Bloomberg report, the company has hired a new software head for the device in a bid to make a speaker that can compete with Google and Amazon's. But the HomePod needs a lot more than new leadership (though that might help) to be a smart speaker… |
| Tesla Is Rolling Out a New Insurance Program With Rates Calculated by Surveilling Drivers Posted: 15 Oct 2021 01:59 PM PDT  After two years of offering car insurance to drivers across California, Tesla's officially bringing a similar offering to clientele in its new home state of Texas. As Electrek first reported, the big difference between the two is how drivers' premiums are calculated: in California, the prices were largely determined… |
| Massive Rift Detected in Arctic’s ‘Last Refuge of Ice’ Posted: 15 Oct 2021 01:40 PM PDT  During spring 2020, a temporary gap the size of Rhode Island appeared in the sea ice to the north of Canada's northernmost island. Troublingly, this rift is located in the so-called "Last Ice Area"—a frozen expanse that's expected to host the last remnants of Arctic sea ice as our world gets continually warmer. |
| After Woman's Tumor Unexpectedly Shrinks, Her Doctors Wonder If CBD Oil Played a Role Posted: 15 Oct 2021 01:37 PM PDT  Doctors in the UK say they've come across an unusual case of cancer recovery: A woman in her 80s whose lung cancer began to shrink without any conventional treatment, after she started taking daily doses of CBD/THC oil. Though it's far from clear that the oil actually affected her tumor, the doctors argue that… |
| This Week's Toy News Has Killer Babies, Killer Doggos, and a Killer Ride Posted: 15 Oct 2021 01:30 PM PDT  Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9's regular round up of the latest and greatest merch news around. This week, Elon Musk forms an unlikely partnership with Mattel to get his cybertruck off the ground, Nerf gets into the fort game, and that gorgeous Gargoyles Goliath gets a much-needed friend. Check it out! |
| Netflix Has Fired a Pregnant Organizer of the Trans Employee Walkout Posted: 15 Oct 2021 01:16 PM PDT  The Dave Chappelle-induced meltdown at Netflix continued apace on Friday after reports emerged that the company had fired a pregnant leader of its transgender employee resource group who had played an instrumental role in organizing an upcoming Oct. 20 work stoppage. |
| If Anyone's Seen This Mildly Radioactive Device, Let the Cops Know. Also, Don't Touch It. Posted: 15 Oct 2021 12:49 PM PDT  Authorities in Pennsylvania are on the lookout for a missing nuclear gauge, the likes of which disappeared from a local worksite and contains radioactive material. Should you somehow stumble upon it, you're strongly encouraged to notify the police. But also, stay the hell away from it. |
| Ron Watkins, the 8chan Troll and QAnon Evangelist, Says He's Running for Congress Posted: 15 Oct 2021 12:28 PM PDT  Online creeper and far-right conspiracy theorist Ron Watkins has filed the necessary paperwork and on Thursday announced his intent to run for Congress in the state of Arizona in 2023. |
| Revisit Day of the Dead for a Reminder That Sometimes Zombies Deserve to Win Posted: 15 Oct 2021 12:20 PM PDT  Today marks the debut of Day of the Dead, a new Syfy TV series that takes inspiration from George A. Romero's 1985 zombie classic of the same name. At this year's San Diego Comic-Con, the show's creators explained that the series—set during the first 24 hours of a zombie apocalypse—will pay homage to the film but will… |
| Big Mouth's New Season Looks Buggy as Hell Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:50 AM PDT  Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg's Big Mouth has been exploring the dark, wacky, and incredibly gross pitfalls of puberty for four seasons, and... that's not going to change. The new trailer for the fifth season of Netflix's hit animated series reveals even more monsters are coming to torment the teens—and to… |
| The Disappointing New Windows 11 Emojis Are Yet Another Reason to Stick With Windows 10 Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:40 AM PDT  There are plenty of reasons why you might not be rushing out to upgrade to Windows 11. Emojis might be low on that list, but the fact that Microsoft isn't delivering on the three-dimensional pop-out emoji it promised us months ago is not a great sign. |
| Instacart's Embattled Gig Workers Are Going On a Nationwide Strike Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:22 AM PDT  Protesting what they characterize as low wages and a lack of consistent communication from corporate, gig workers on the grocery delivery app Instacart are poised to begin a nationwide work stoppage on Saturday. |
| Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's Morpheus Could Explain Some Crucial Lore in Matrix Resurrections Posted: 15 Oct 2021 10:30 AM PDT  Of the many mysteries revolving around The Matrix Resurrections, the situation with Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's new incarnation of Morpheus has been particularly interesting because of what it suggests about the direction the new movie's story may take. |
| The ABCs of Big Oil: How Big Oil Killed Our Political Imagination Posted: 15 Oct 2021 10:00 AM PDT  On The ABCs of Big Oil, a new podcast miniseries produced in collaboration with Drilled, my co-host Amy Westervelt and I have been exploring the oil and gas industry's infiltration of grade school curricula to promote the false idea that humanity needs fossil-fueled capitalism to survive. This week, we're moving on up… |
| A New Look Inside the Latest Thrawn Book Reintroduces a Very Familiar Chiss Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:50 AM PDT  Timothy Zahn's two Thrawn trilogies have done a lot to casually re-integrate elements of his highly influential work in the Expanded Universe back into Star Wars' contemporary canon, especially when it comes to the inner workings of the Chiss Ascendancy. But after books of teasing, the author is putting the spotlight… |
| Tiny Gas Explosions Create the Raised Dots on This Electronic Braille Display Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:45 AM PDT  Creating dynamic Braille displays that can quickly change their pattern of dots isn't a new idea, but the existing solutions are often big boxes with complex mechanisms used to raise and lower an array of rounded pins. Researchers from Cornell University are working on an explosive new approach that could produce… |
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